US58798A - Improvement in corn and cane planters - Google Patents

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2 Sheds-Sheet 1.

J M. FATE.

Corn-Planter.

Patented Oct. 16, 1866.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. M. FATE.

Corn-Planter. v Fla- 58,798; Pap'gnted 001;. 16, 1866.

N. PEYER& PHOTD-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D. C-

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE,

JAMES M. FATE, OF BOONSBOROUGH, IOYVA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN AND CANE PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,798, dated October 16, 1855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. FATE, of Boonsborongh, in theconn ty ofBoone,and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Corn and (Jane Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference hein g hadto the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig.

Y 3 is a longitudinal section taken centrally through the machine when in operation. Fig. 4 is a similar view, showing the dropping devices elevated.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts of the several figures.

This invention relates-to certain novel improvements on machines which are adapted for planting corn, cane, and other seeds, the object of which improvement is to so arrange and support the frame carrying the seed-dropping devices that the attendant, while riding upon the machine, can raise or lower said frame at pleasure, without having to lift the frame upon which he is mounted, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the axle of the carriage, having two transporting-wheels, B B, with wide fellies applied to its ends and draft-pole C secured centrally to it.

The drivers seat D is mounted upon the axle A by means of a frame, D, which extends back a suitable distance in rear. of the axle A, and has two scraping-plates, a a, applied to it, which are intended for clearing the peripheries of the wheels B B of any earth which may adhere to them.

The foot-board D for the driver is secured down firmly upon the axle A, and immediately in front of this foot-board a post, E, is firmly secured to the draft-pole O, as shown in Figs.

1, 3, and 4:. This constitutes the several parts of the carriage or main supporting-frame upon which the attendant rides while operating the machine.

In front of the transporting-wheels B B, and suspended beneath the draftpole G, is a transverse beam, F, which has a drawbar, F, secured centrally to it and extending forward, which bar is pivoted in a suitable manner to the draft-pole C, so as to allow the beam F to Swing freely up and down. This beam F is suspended from a lever, G, which is pivoted to the top of the standard or post E, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

To the rear end of the lever G a rod, 67, is attached, the lower end of which is again attached to a treatlle, H, which is pivoted at one end to the foot-board D, so that the driver, while sittting in seat D, can, with his foot upon said treadle, raise or lower the beam F. This beam F is prevented from having any undue lateral movement by means of a staple-guide, g, which is placed astride of the draft-pole G, and connected at its lower ends to said beam. This staple 9 should be long enough to allow of the required length of vertical movement being given to the beam F by the swinging of the lever G.

On top of the beam F, and at its extremities, hopper-boxes J J are secured, for carrying the corn or other seeds to be planted. These boxes have reciprocating slides it it applied to their bottoms for discharging the seed in proper quantities, and they are connected at their inner ends to a transverse beam, it,

which is allowed to slide freely in a direction with its length upon the beam F.

The slides are moved by the driver, while sitting in hisseat, by means of a long lever, K, which is pivoted at its lower forward end and to the beam F, and passed between two studs, 2' i, projecting from the late ally-sliding beam h, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Beneath the boxes J J, and in line with the wheels B B, are two colters,L L, which are applied to seed-tubes that conduct the grains from the slides h h, and deposit them in the drills made by the colters. The transportingwheels then follow and roll and press in the seed.

The seed-droppi n g devices are in this manner applied to a frame or beam, F, which is al lowed to rise and fall freely, and thus accommodate the colters to the inequalities in the surface of the ground, so that the seed will be planted at a uniform depth, however irregular may be such surface; and, while this is the case, it will be seen that the attendant, while mount 2 sense ed upon the axle of the carriage, can raise or lower the beam F, with its seed-droppers, without such labor and without having to lift the f 'ame upon which he is supported.

The weight of the driver and the seed-dropping devices are all sustained upon the carriag'e; but the drivers weight does not come upon the markers or colters L L; consequently the only load to belil'ted is the beam F and its attachments.

I do not confine my invention to any particular description of dropping device or marker, as these parts may be varied according" to circumstances and the kind of seed which it is desired toplant. By having the beam F sns pended from the main frame centrally, this beam is allowed to rock freely, and adapt itself to hill-side planting.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

4. Pivoting the forward end of the drag-bar I F of the beam F to the draft-pole G, substantially as described.

5. Snspending the beam F, or its equivalent, from the main frame centrally, substantially as described.

JAMES M. FATE.

\Vitnesses:

D. L. WILBUR, J. W. BARNIIART.

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